Hi Greg,
It looks like the pending v4.14.8-159-gc2a94d1a609 fails to boot on all
arm64 boards. hikey and juno are failing for us, and I see similar arm64
boot failures reported by kernelci.
Still investigating root cause.
Dan
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm/sparsemem: Fix ARM64 boot crash when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=sum…
The filename of the patch is:
mm-sparsemem-fix-arm64-boot-crash-when-config_sparsemem_extreme-y.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable(a)vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From 629a359bdb0e0652a8227b4ff3125431995fec6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov(a)linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 11:33:37 +0300
Subject: mm/sparsemem: Fix ARM64 boot crash when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y
From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov(a)linux.intel.com>
commit 629a359bdb0e0652a8227b4ff3125431995fec6e upstream.
Since commit:
83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y")
we allocate the mem_section array dynamically in sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(),
but some architectures, like arm64, don't call the routine to initialize sparsemem.
Let's move the initialization into memory_present() it should cover all
architectures.
Reported-and-tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla(a)arm.com>
Tested-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson(a)linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov(a)linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon(a)arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm(a)kvack.org
Fixes: 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107083337.89952-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel…
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Rue <dan.rue(a)linaro.org>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju(a)linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ----------
mm/sparse.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5651,16 +5651,6 @@ void __init sparse_memory_present_with_a
unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
int i, this_nid;
-#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
- if (!mem_section) {
- unsigned long size, align;
-
- size = sizeof(struct mem_section) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS;
- align = 1 << (INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT);
- mem_section = memblock_virt_alloc(size, align);
- }
-#endif
-
for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, &this_nid)
memory_present(this_nid, start_pfn, end_pfn);
}
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -207,6 +207,16 @@ void __init memory_present(int nid, unsi
{
unsigned long pfn;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
+ if (unlikely(!mem_section)) {
+ unsigned long size, align;
+
+ size = sizeof(struct mem_section) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS;
+ align = 1 << (INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT);
+ mem_section = memblock_virt_alloc(size, align);
+ }
+#endif
+
start &= PAGE_SECTION_MASK;
mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(&start, &end);
for (pfn = start; pfn < end; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kirill.shutemov(a)linux.intel.com are
queue-4.14/mm-sparsemem-fix-arm64-boot-crash-when-config_sparsemem_extreme-y.patch
queue-4.14/x86-xen-provide-pre-built-page-tables-only-for-config_xen_pv-y-and-config_xen_pvh-y.patch
queue-4.14/x86-xen-drop-5-level-paging-support-code-from-the-xen_pv-code.patch
queue-4.14/x86-kasan-use-the-same-shadow-offset-for-4-and-5-level-paging.patch
queue-4.14/mm-sparsemem-allocate-mem_section-at-runtime-for-config_sparsemem_extreme-y.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-relocate-page-fault-error-codes-to-traps.h.patch